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Talks & Learning
Institute of Contemporary Arts
Current Programme
Critical Conversations
1 January 2019 – 1 January 2022
A series of lectures and conversations with internationally recognized figures from culture, philosophy and activism. 
THIS WORLD MAKES US SICK
6 March 2021 – 6 March 2022
bare minimum, ICA’s collective-in-residence, presents THIS WORLD MAKES US SICK, a programme series about illness, work, care, love and doing nothing.
THIS WORLD MAKES US SICK
Living in a Body Under Threat
Thu, 24 June
Life drawing followed by discussion surrounding Johanna Hedva’s ‘Sick Woman Theory’ and Jack Halberstam’s ‘Trans*’
Cinema 3
Paul B. Preciado with Jack Halberstam
1 June 2021 – 1 June 2022
Philosopher and writer Paul B. Preciado discusses agency, gender, dissent and subjectivity with queer theorist Jack Halberstam.
Cinema 3
Don't Worry, I’m Sick and Poor
20 April – 22 May 2021
Born from the lack of diversity in art education and disappointment in art curriculums, Don’t Worry I’m Sick and Poor is a lecture series created as an essential alternative within art education.
Cinema 3
Institution as Praxis – In Conversation
19 April – 19 May 2021
Launch of Institution as Praxis in conversation with Pujita Guha, Carolina Rito, Abhijan Toto, Farid Rakun and Bill Balaskas.
Cinema 3
I FEEL SICK: Del LaGrace Volcano and Marc Thompson
13 April – 13 May 2021
Screening of Del LaGrace Volcano’s film Pansexual Public Porn (1997) and an interview from Marc Thompson’s youtube series The Undetectables
Cinema 3
Carceral Aesthetics
12 April 2021 – 12 April 2022
A captioned audio recording of artist and writer Sable Elyse Smith and author Nicole R. Fleetwood as they discuss their research into the carceral, the personal and the political.
Cinema 3
Staying with the Violence: Womb Work and Family Abolition
15 February – 15 August 2021
Captioned audio of writer Sophie Lewis' lecture drawing on theories of surrogacy, gestational justice and family abolition, followed by a discussion with poet Anne Boyer.